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Cloud Ready Infrastructure Smart Solutions Kits Accelerate Design and Deployment of Unified Data Center
Chapter CRI Smart Solutions Kits Accelerate Design and Deployment of Unified DC
VMDC Topology
Cloud Ready Infrastructure Smart Solutions Kits are pre-defined and pre-validated baseline bill of
materials (BOM) sized for different environments to enable functionality for the Unified Data Center
Networking layer of VMDC. This layer provides secure separation and access to shared network services
for the applications and workflows moving through the virtualized data center. The baseline is a
suggested starting point of products and features that can be readily adapted to meet each business’s
unique needs.
Cloud Ready Infrastructure Smart Solutions Kits complement VMDC Cisco Validated Design (CVD)
documentation. The CVDs detail validated architecture features and benefits, along with guidance on
how to integrate and configure the products and technologies to provide the end-to-end system. The CRI
Smart Solutions Kits provide product BOMs and licenses necessary to implement the system described
in the CVDs.
In the future, Cloud Services Management kits will be made available to simplify the ordering and
deploying the Cloud Services Management Layer. The kits will be based on Cisco Validated Designs,
which pre-validate Cloud Ready Infrastructure with Cloud Service Management solutions such as Cisco
Intelligent Automation for Cloud.
VMDC Topology
As shown in Figure 2, the CRI Smart Solutions Kit describes the baseline products for the
core/aggregation layer and services layer of the VMDC reference architecture. These two layers, along
with integrated compute, storage, and network systems (ICS) (compute + storage + networking) form
the basic data center building blocks called Points of Delivery (POD). The POD serves as a blueprint for
incremental build-out of the Cloud data center in a structured fashion. When resource utilization within
a POD reaches a pre-determined threshold (i.e., 70-80%), the idea is that one simply deploys a new POD.
From a service fulfillment and orchestration perspective, a POD represents a discrete resource
management domain.
Figure 2 VMDC System Overview